I have been looking forward to Opera 10.60 because it seems nice and fast, but there is some problem with playing media files in 10.60--a ubuntu problem as I understand it. It will be available in the Puppy Package Manager of 5.1 though and it sounds like you have installed it yourself.

I have been looking forward to Opera 10.60 because it seems nice and fast, but there is some problem with playing media files in 10.60--a ubuntu problem as I understand it. It will be available in the Puppy Package Manager of 5.1 though and it sounds like you have installed it yourself.

I'm posting with 10.60 in Luci-209 right now.It is nice and quite a bit faster.It works really well..........except for the media files.

I made a pet from Ubuntu debs.....problem. Made a pet from the tar.gz packages....same problem.Tried simply installing the deb...same problem. Wasn't happy with the results so didn't upload any.

hmmm... i'm using opera 10.60 (i've been using it since it came out) on a full install lupu 5.01 and i haven't come accross this media player problem... I play flash/java apps well, and i've tried the opera unite media player and i'm able to play everything well... i used the .tar.gz install from opera to install this though so maybe that's the solution?

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

Sadly, I installed Ktorrent today with that packet manager, repeat of the old story and about fifty files to uninstall manually, one by one, to get rid of the disk fattenings. Do not understand yet how Pctorrent works but it is surely not user-friendly. I used Ktorrent in SUSE distros and it immediately came in the moment I clicked a torrent in Firefox.

"Pets" by quickpet are reliable, work fine.

Nevertheless, I grew addicted to Puppy Linux in only a few days; it is lean and quick and the most things that I need are present either in the distro or in quickpet.

I use it on 2 towers, each with 2xHD so always an extra swap partition on the "other" HD to use every bit of speed gain. Old machines, one is 1GHz 2x80GB IDE HD, 780MB RAM and the other 425MHz, 2x20GB IDE HD and only 256MB RAM.

Couldn't resist trying opera 10.60 also.
Indeed quite more performance then SeaMonkey.
I looked in htop, but can't quite interpret the results.
I see multiple pids/instances for SeaMonkey as well as for Opera.
Should I add the ram footprint for each instance to have the total ram usage?
In that case I have overcommitment of my 1GB ram for SeaMonkey as well for Opera.

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

willem1940NLD, I think you will be much happier with the puppy-lucid repo in Lupu 5.1. The programs there are all tested and configured for lucid puppy and more can be added as they are developed. As you have seen, just because a program works in Ubuntu does not mean it will be a slam dunk in Lucid puppy.

I do not like the "packet manager" and probably will never try it anymore. Three or four times I did, it promised to have all dependencies, program installed and appeared in menu list but without a pictogram and remaining dead.

Moreover, it proceeds lists of "dependencies" etc., that are often too long to fit in any screen setting and no scrolling possible so then I cannot reach the bottom line where the buttons for o.k and cancel are ....

willem1940NLD, I think you will be much happier with the puppy-lucid repo in Lupu 5.1. The programs there are all tested and configured for lucid puppy and more can be added as they are developed. As you have seen, just because a program works in Ubuntu does not mean it will be a slam dunk in Lucid puppy.

Do you mean "5.0.1" (which I am using) or something new again? All I found in there for updating/extending are quickpet and install. What/where is the "repo" you are mentioning?

The not-scrollable in between list during the use of "install" seems a bug to me, as it can grow larger than the screen.

When I go to quickpet and click update packages it pops a green window which tells me I have to go on the internet page automatically opened to download the updates, and then I have to click on it for the installation.

Alas the web page does not work any more and it tells me
"The Update is now part of the News
- run Quickpet
then News and click on any updates"
which I don't understand in the least.